We’re twin sisters who married twin brothers – but people always make the same incorrect assumptions about our lives
A SET of identical twins who married identical brothers have opened up about their lives, and what people always get wrong.
Brittany and Briana Deane met and fell in love with twin brothers Josh and Jeremy Salyers at a festival in 2017, before tying the knot just a year later.
Following the whirlwind romance, the two couples had a joint wedding on August 5, 2018, and now live in the same home in Virginia, USA.
Brittany and Briana, who are in their thirties, also fell pregnant around the same time, with Jeremy and Briana welcoming their son Jax in January of 2021.
Just a few months later, in April, the family was joined by Josh and Brittany’s son Jett.
Despite having different parents, the toddlers are classed as quaternary twins, which means they’re cousins and genetic siblings too.
Although it might seem like a strange set up, the couples insist it couldn’t be more normal for them.
“Jeremy and I really were attracted to each other and started gravitating toward each other,” Briana previously told ABC News.
“And Brittany and Josh started. So it was like perfectly kind of paired off,” she added.
As for their kids, the parents are raising the boys as brothers, not cousins.
“They are technically known as quaternary twins.
“Because they are genetic brothers and they were born less than 9 or 10 months of each other. They’re genetic brothers and the same age,” Brianna said.
The mum said the kids simply have two mums and two dads each, which sounds complicated but works out for the families.
Despite their interconnected lives, there’s one line they won’t cross, and it’s what people often wrongly assume about their families.
Last year, the sisters said they’re not interested in each others husbands at all.
“I think there are people who wonder if it’s a polygamist situation, and that’s very much not the case,” Briana said.
“We share finances and all of that, but we’re not sharing spouses,” she continued.
Britanny agreed with her sister, and added: “Each twin gets their own partner.”
Chatting to USA Today previously, Brittany said: ”I think for a lot of people in the dating world, especially singletons, they are looking for their other half.
What are the different types of twins?
TWINS are when two children are produced in the same pregnancy.
They can be identical or different, and two boys, two girls, or a girl and a boy.
Twins are quite rare, but are usually born completely healthy
What are the different types of twins?
Monozygotic – identical twins (‘one cell’ twins)
Dizygotic – also known as ‘fraternal’, non identical twins. Babies are no more alike than siblings born at separate times, and they can be the same or different sexes
Conjoined twins – identical twins that are joined together. They are extremely rare, and it’s estimated they range from one in 49,000 to 189,000 births, although around half are stillborn, and one third die within 24 hours.
Can identical twins be two different sexes?
Identical twins are always of the same sex because they form from the same fertilised egg that contains either female or male chromosomes.
The single egg is divided into two separate embryos, and they occur in about three in every 1000 deliveries worldwide.
Therefore, boy/girl twins are always fraternal (or dizygotic), as their chromosomes are either XY (male) or XX (female).
What are Di Di twins?
Di Di stands for Dichronic Diamniotic, and they are the common type of twins.
They have their own amniotic sacs and placenta, so are just sharing the womb of the mother, and are therefore not identical.
There are few complications with Di Di twins, so have a good chance of being born completely healthy without intervention from your doctor.
Di di twins are more likely to be non-identical than identical.
“We each already had another half – a literal other half and we each previously had experiences where we dated people who were annoyed that it was not them who was considered the other half.
”But the four of us all understand the twin thing.”
The two sisters had dated nontwins, or “singletons” as they call them, but had always dreamed of marrying another set of identical twins.
After welcoming their set of kids, the family of six now all live under the same roof.
“We ‘parent trapped’ ourselves, and everything is nonstop! We are very happy with our two baby boys,” Briana chuckled.
”If we do expand our families, we would hope to be lucky enough to experience overlapping pregnancies together again.”